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CREDENTIALS

                                             October 24, 2015
                                             November 6, 2015

                                                   Originally posted to
Anti-Nuclear Amory vs Atomicrod,                   the dailykos, with tags:
and Other Fun with Credentials
                                                   Climate Change
We all use credentials (and more                   Nuclear Power
generally, reputation) as what I call              Amory Lovins
a "first stage filter", a quick way                Stewart Brand
of doing triage on the cacophony of                Peter Schwartz
different voices competing for our                 AAAS
collective attention.                              IPCC
                                                   Harness the Sun
Credentialism is at best a very                    Philip Warburg
quick-and-dirty method of                          Rod Adams
evaluating a speaker, and I've                     Freeman Dyson
argued that while things like                      K. Eric Drexler
this are useful and absolutely                     Jane Jacobs
necessary, they should also                        Ted Nelson
"leak": we should be on the                        The Last Intellectuals
lookout for cases where                            Russell Jacoby
exceptions deserve to be made.                     Jeroen
                                                   Patrick Moore
   (See "The Two Gatekeepers")                     James Lovelock
                                TWO_GATES                         James Hansen
Let's see how Credentialism                        Mary Olson
works in various cases,                            Benjamin K. Sovacool
beginning with the                                 Richard Posner
anti-nuclear power activist                        Suzanne Waldman
Amory Lovins and moving on                         Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
from there.                                        Helen Caldicott
                                                   George Monbiot
                                                   Paul Krugman
    CREDENTIALS_AMORY_LOVINS                              Credentialism
                                                   Social Epistemology

                                                     (This piece covered
                                                     a bit of ground.)


                                                A follow on to things like
                                                "The Two Gatekeepers".
                                                One version of that:

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